A number of sarcophagi of the Herodian period of architecture, with Greek and Hebrew inscriptions, and several pieces of pottery dating from before the destruction of the second Temple, were discovered today in a cave on Mt. Scopus by Arab laborers excavating for the foundations of a building near the Hebrew University. One inscription mentions Hananiah Ben Teradion, a noted teacher and martyr of the third Tannaitic generation. The antiquities department of the Hebrew University has been entrusted with further work on the discoveries, which were found not far from a cave where other tombs had previously been unearthed.
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